Chapter Seventy-Eight: The First Generation of the Four Elementary Students
Walking out of the airport, Gu Bei has already put on a three-piece artist suit - mask, sunglasses, baseball cap, not many people on Baodao know Gu Bei, but Beiping is not as good as Baodao.
Gu Bei's main influence is in China, and Beiping is the main gathering place for fans.
Ignoring the strange gazes of the passengers, Gu Bei strode and was about to walk towards the taxi parking area, but when he passed by a small newsstand, he couldn't help but stop.
Because Gu Bei seemed to hear his name.
"Hello, boss, is there any news about Gu Bei recently?" While quickly searching for the periodicals and newspapers on the place, Gu Bei opened his mouth to inquire.
"This book, and that book, some media seem to have joined forces recently to select a four-year-old student, and Gu Bei is one of them." The boss took out a few magazines and threw them in front of Gu Bei, and said, "But it's strange to say, in the past few months, there has been a lot of news about Gu Bei, and there has been no news at all recently, many little girls have come to me to buy his posters and postcards, but I only have the ones that came out before, and Gu Bei doesn't know what he's busy with, so he can't take the time to take a few posters." ”
Looking through the magazine, Gu Bei replied casually: "He may be busy falling in love." ”
In 2000, for the first time, there was the concept of the four major students, and since then, four new and most popular young male artists have been selected every year.
Gu Bei didn't expect that he would be on the list for the first time, let alone that he would be so tricky, he would fade out of the public's field of vision, and he could still get such praise and honors.
The reason for being on the list is: "While Gu Bei appeared in front of the audience with "Carry Love to the End", he received a lot of popularity with his super high ratings, and the release of the last two albums "Spectator" and "Low Murmur" once again established his status as a potential newcomer in the music industry, and "Low Murmur" has achieved nearly one million sales. He has participated in many film and television works such as "My Father and Mother", "That Mountain, That Man and That Dog", "Weilong of the Western Regions", "Silent River", and "Endless", presenting multi-directional and full-style development.
In 1998, he starred in "My Father and Mother" in cooperation with the famous director Zhang Yimou, and shined at the 50th Berlin International Film Festival, and the film won the second prize of the film festival; In 1999, he starred in "That Mountain, That Man and That Dog" directed by Huo Jianqi, which landed in the theater of the island country in March 2000, and now has a cumulative box office of more than 800 million yen, equivalent to more than 60 million Chinese dollars, becoming the highest-grossing Chinese film in the island country. In the same year, he starred in "Silent River", landed on the movie channel and received high praise, and Gu Bei also won the Outstanding Actor and Newcomer Actor Award at the 6th Huaguo Film Huabiao Awards in 2000 for this film.
In addition, Gu Bei's guest appearance in "Weilong of the Western Regions" won $50 million at the box office in North America, and he starred in Feng Xiaotank's new drama "Endless", which won the first place in the Lunar New Year stalls in 1999 and became the box office champion of the Lunar New Year stalls.
Gu Bei's performances in film and television works have been well praised by co-directors, actors, and most of the staff. ”
The reason for being on the list is quite decent, and Gu Bei also got the news about the release of "That Mountain, That Man and That Dog" in the island country, and the situation looks very good.
By the way, I glanced at the other three, Huang Lei, Lu Yi, and Li Yapeng are all young male artists with a good reputation, and there are at least two or three representative works.
Putting the magazine back, Gu Bei said, "Thank you, boss." ”
"No, you don't buy it?"
"I'll take a look at ......" Gu Bei just wanted to make a joke, but was startled by the wide eyes of the newsstand owner, and said, "Is there a poster of Sun Yanzi, I want a copy of each set." ”
After returning home, Gu Bei put up the newly bought poster in a few places, and after a short rest, he got up and went to his hot pot restaurant and milk tea shop.
Gu Bei named the bubble tea shop Leisure Time, a name with a little bit of poetry, the decoration inside is simple and elegant, and there is a wish wall, which draws on the marketing model later.
In addition, Gu Bei is also ordering different cards for each table, with a small text on it, similar to life mottos, but no one has heard of them yet, and these cards, Gu Bei also asked to change them every once in a while, and also prepared a lot of card copywriting.
There are a total of two clerks in the bubble tea shop, two young girls who have come out to work after graduating from middle school, and Gu Bei specially sent them to Xiangjiang to learn how to make milk tea for a week.
The hot pot restaurant is called "Food Four Seasons", which is unremarkable and has a trace of charm, because the store focuses on four types of hot pot, Beiping flavor hot pot, Sichuan hot pot, Inner Mongolia fresh fat beef and sheep soup pot, Cantonese hot pot, Gu Bei divided these four types of hot pot into four seasons, and the decoration was also divided into four different styles, separated by a screen in the middle, and "food four seasons" also refers to the food that can be enjoyed all year round.
The hot pot restaurant is relatively large, and there are 10 waiters hired, plus the kitchen, cashier, and take-off, there are 16 employees.
Gu Bei visited quietly, there are schools near the milk tea shop, and young people accept new things very quickly, there are really a lot of customers in the milk tea shop in the leisure time, and most of them are young people, but the two girls are busy before and after, which looks very distressing.
After chatting with a few customers for a while, the reviews are very good, not just because this is a store opened by Gu Bei, and I really feel that milk tea tastes mellow and delicious, and it is relatively healthy, and the style of the store is also very popular, and there are many post-it notes on the wish wall.
The feedback from the two clerks is also very good, after all, it is the first one, the location is not bad, everything is going well.
Before leaving the bubble tea shop, Gu Bei specially talked about his long-term order of a batch of coffee from Baodao, and asked them to add it to the new product as soon as possible.
There are a lot of customers in the milk tea shop, when you get to the hot pot restaurant, it can be called hot, the price of the cheap hot pot is affordable, there are many types to choose from, there are many promotional activities just opened, the lobby 36 tables are half sitting, and most of the eight underwriting are also booked out, the customer evaluation is also good, and the overall situation is also very good.
But if there are many people, it is easy to have accidents, Gu Bei heard the store manager say that there are two waiters who are in conflict because of work, in this regard, Gu Bei can only let the store manager think about it himself, if the trouble is too much, some measures can be taken appropriately.
Both stores are developing very well, and only 100,000 yuan of working capital is enough on the books, and the rest, if nothing else, just wait for the profit to receive money.
The investment industry is on the right track, so that Gu Bei has put a lot of mind at ease, and he is more focused on doing his own thing, and before the school of drama opened, Gu Bei finally completed the script of "God of Killing". Gu Bei did not stay in his hands, which made little sense, but sold it to the French SBS production company for $50,000, which was also the production company of the original film.
This summer, Gu Bei accumulated 580,000.
The recording album got a contract of 3.1 million Taiwan dollars, because Gu Bei made another MV and added a piano song "The Mark of Rain", so Warner Records raised the price to NT$3.1 million, and the after-tax income was 400,000 Huaxia dollars.
"God of Killing" bought 50,000 US dollars, and the exchange rate in 2000 was about 8.2:1, but the tax rate in Europe and the United States was higher, and after this money was put into Gu Bei's account, only 180,000 Huaxia dollars remained.
In addition, there were almost 700,000 left, Gu Bei had 1.3 million, and this money also became the start-up capital of Gu Bei Entertainment Company, but this was all after Gu Bei graduated from the Drama Academy in 2002.